"Unfortunately, while livestock producers have done an outstanding job of producing high quality livestock and milk, they failed to produce the necessary profit to pay their bills and stay in business," Hansen said.

"It is high time we address the root cause for the loss of livestock producers instead of chasing meat packer-financed-media-disinformation that has generated wild-goose-chase-diversions," Hansen said.

The agenda for the entire NeFU Convention held Dec. 7-8 can be found HERE.

Registration begins at 8 a.m. Friday. The convention begins at 9 a.m. Friday and resumes 8:30 a.m. Saturday. As always, Farmers Union members and the public are invited to attend.